ABSTRACT
I thought it might be helpful to the Lean Discipline Expert candidates to speak about and show examples of tools that I believe they will find helpful to support their visual factory efforts. Your Lean system may already have these incorporated into the various Lean discipline training packages, and if so, by all means use those to remain true to the system standard, but if not, feel free to use these. To build the Lean House you have to have standards, and where there are none you must create them. Only by having standards for everything can you understand what normal versus abnormal conditions are, and I believe we should all understand that when we are on the Gemba, we want to spend our time on the abnormal condition and bring it back to the standard immediately! Another method to help see the normal versus abnormal is through implementing a visual factory with information at the cell, value stream, and/ or plant level showing the current status of activities such as trend charts for 5S or changeovers. This ties in directly to the question asked most frequently: “How do I sustain what has been implemented?” The best way I know to maintain and sustain is through layered audits, and the Kamishibai system is one of the best for incorporating layered audits.
